What Irish counties do you have research interests in? Poll

Posted 11 Feb 2011

Here are the results of our 26th Unlock the Past poll - What Irish counties do you have ancestors from - or research interests in? Votes were cast by 374 people. The results are summarised in the table below.

Almost everyone responding to the poll had Irish ancestry - just 2% did not. The most common countries were Clare, Cork and Tipperary with over 25% of the voters indicating they have research interests there. Sadly, over 5% of the voters knew they had at least one ancestor from Ireland but as yet have not been able to find which county they came from.

County

Votes

Percent Voters

No Irish ancestors

8

2.14

Don't know the county

20

5.35

Antrim

60

16.04

Armagh

66

17.65

Carlow

18

4.81

Cavan

41

10.96

Clare

83

22.19

Cork

91

24.33

Donegal

29

7.75

Down

47

12.57

Dublin

67

17.91

Fermanagh

55

14.71

Galway

45

12.03

Kerry

35

9.36

Kildare

22

5.88

Kilkenny

34

9.09

Laois

14

3.74

Leitrim

7

1.87

Limerick

51

13.64

Londonderry

37

9.89

Longford

14

3.74

Louth

8

2.14

Mayo

19

5.08

Meath

20

5.35

Monaghan

19

5.08

Offaly

19

5.08

Roscommon

29

7.75

Sligo

20

5.35

Tipperary

87

23.26

Tyrone

59

15.78

Waterford

21

5.61

Westmeath

10

2.67

Wexford

25

6.68

Wicklow

24

6.42

Other (comments)

6

1.60

Where the voters came from

Australia - 333

Canada - 1

Hong Kong - 2

Ireland - 2

New Zealand - 7

United Kingdom - 6

Unknown - 23

Other comments

Don't know where my Harveys are from

Lordship of Newry

Newry Down

Plus others whose origin in Ireland is as yet unknown

"Accidental Irish only - English parents working in Ireland, father in hatting trade, 3 of their children born in Ireland, 2 in Dublin, 1 in Cork"

I was interested to read that the most input to the survey was from Aussies. I am often distracted by the large number of American family tree information that tends to dominate most genealogical sites I have visited.

This is encouraging and motivates me to take a better look at the site. Thank you

The polls are run by Unlock the Past, which is an Australian business. While the web is open to anyone, most subscribers and users of our site are in Australia or New Zealand. Likewise our publishing, events and online free content are predominantly around Australian/New Zealand interests.